[purephase]

I hear you, but Jon should take heed from his predecessor, Textmate.

Textmate was a prime example of what happens when an incredibly popular project is run by a single individual. The fact that TM 2 has flourished (IMO) since being open-sourced, is a good indication that additional eyes are a good thing.

I'm not suggesting that Jon open-sources ST, just saying that reaching out for help is not a bad thing in these one-man-band projects.

[EGreg]

I've open sourced http://github.com/EGreg/Q

Docs: http://platform.qbix.com

So far my company are still the only ones working on it

[yukinon]

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but when zooming in/out of your docs page there is a huge, noticeable lag where it blocks out the page completely to reload it again.

[myers]

May I suggest adding a link to the http://platform.qbix.com in your README.md

[EGreg]

Yep - we haven't completed it yet so even though the platform is already opensourced under GPL and we are committing to it bazaar-style and not cathedral-style, it's not yet been properly marketed.

I just wanted to illustrate how just opensourcing things isn't enough. You need marketing, PR or organic notoriety. And often that takes resources. Once, I met Eben Moglen and he yelled at me for half an hour simply for taking investors for my company. I explained to him that "free software" doesn't solve the economics for entrepreneurs who start new projects. You still need to use resources. Later when I sent him the link to github he said he was wrong but stopped short of an apology. Quite a strange guy.